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June 01, 2005
FORMOSA TELETEK Announces New Generation of Bluetooth® Headsets
FORMOSA TELETEK, a leading provider of Bluetooth wireless connectivity products for the PC, cellular phone, and automotive accessories, and LTCC components, today announces its new generation of Bluetooth Headset - Sporty. The Sporty headset provides crisp sound, high quality, and extended talk time for wireless and hands-free phone conversations. Lightweight, it is comfortable to wear and adjusts to fit either ear. It also features voice activation functions making it a true hands-free solution. This user friendly solution meets the legal requirements in many countries for hands-free phone conversations when driving.
(PRWEB) June 1, 2005 -- FORMOSA TELETEK, a leading provider of Bluetooth wireless connectivity products for the PC, cellular phone, and automotive accessories, and LTCC components, today announces its new generation of Bluetooth Headset - Sporty. The Sporty headset provides crisp sound, high quality, and extended talk time for wireless and hands-free phone conversations. Lightweight, it is comfortable to wear and adjusts to fit either ear. It also features voice activation functions making it a true hands-free solution. This user friendly solution meets the legal requirements in many countries for hands-free phone conversations when driving.
The Sporty Bluetooth headset takes full advantage of XEMICS’ ultra low power Bluetooth circuits functioning on a single 120 mAh Li-ion cell, providing an extended talk time up to 10 hours. It is fully compliant with the Bluetooth specifications and will work with any Bluetooth enabled mobile phone supporting the headset and/or hands-free profile.
“With the handset market remaining by far the largest Bluetooth market, the numbers of cellular phone headsets rises accordingly, with a forecasted 30 million units shipped this year. FORMOSA TELETEK has positioned itself to grab a significant portion of this market” says Keven Yang, Executive Vice President of FORMOSA TELETEK. “The Sporty was developed to provide complete freedom to cellular users who are interested in a headset that does not require a cord between the phone and the headset. With 10 hours talk time, our wireless, comfortable, stylish and affordable headset is designed for professional and private use every day.” This new product will be presented at the Computex Fair in Taipei, Taiwan, May 31st – June 4th, 2005.
All hands-free profile features are supported and easily accessible thanks to the comfortable Man-Machine-Interface (MMI). For end users’ convenience a three button design was chosen which allows easy access to the volume control and phone answer/end buttons. The flexible chip architecture from XEMICS enables the MMI to be upgraded easily. Both companies worked together on this generation of headsets to take full advantage of the ultra low power capability of the XEMICS chipset. The range of the Bluetooth link is particularly helpful in cars and other transportation systems. An incoming call will ring through to the headset and a simple push will transfer it to the headset. On the other hand, if the cell phone supports voice dialing one will be able to use that feature through the headset, without touching the phone at all.
ABOUT FORMOSA TELETEK
Formosa Teletek Corporation firmly believes that "growth comes from innovations and innovations come from people." The company built up a group of passionate, aspiring and highly creative people, and succeeds with innovations. It creates products that become known around the world for both their beauty and durability. On the other side, Formosa continues the fine heritage of Formosa Plastics Group; and seeks technological growth and innovation step-by-step to move rapidly and solidly ahead on an established path.
On the strength of solid RF design expertise, appropriate design library, and in house LTCC process, Formosa can assure with full confidence to be capable of providing its customers with products of optimum design and highest yield in the shortest time. Its capability in RF component design has attained world-class level and the products are well received in the market. Formosa specialties include:
*Design of Bluetooth modules and development of application products.
*Development of embedded software and integration of man-machine interface.
*Simulation and layout design of LTCC modules.
*Provision and management of LTCC library
*WLAN 802.11 related design and development of application products.
ABOUT XEMICS
XEMICS is a privately owned fabless semiconductor company with headquarters in Switzerland and a worldwide sales and customer support network. XEMICS delivers a range of advanced short-range, customized and standard, wireless connectivity solutions to a global customer base. XEMICS is a leading designer and provider of Wireless RF transceivers and Bluetooth® applications, data acquisition, communication products, CODECs and GPS receivers. With a focus on high-quality low cost solutions XEMICS provides a combination of ultra-low power technology and innovative IC design.
For further information, please contact:
FORMOSA TELETEK CORPORATION
358, Hwaya 2nd Rd., Gueishan Shiang,
Taoyuan, Taiwan, R.O.C
Phone: +886 3 3280800 ext. 5201
Fax: +886 3 3281231
E-Mail: e-mail protected from spam bots
Website: http://www.f-tek.com.tw
XEMICS SA
Florence Amez-Droz
Public Relations Manager
Phone: +41 32 729 4170
Fax: +41 32 729 4001
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Website: www.xemics.com
Bluetooth® is a SIG trademark used by XEMICS under license.
Posted by Industrial-Manufacturing at June 1, 2005 02:07 AM